Sex Work in Southeast Asia: The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS

by Lisa Law

Overview

Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415218054
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/22/2000
Series:	Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

Lisa Law is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Rethinking the prostitute subject: bodies, subjectivity and space 3. Cartographies of desire: mapping Southeast Asian sex industries 4. Negotiating the bar: sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space 5. Beyond the bar: lives, community and transient identities 6. Sex work, HIV/AIDS and blame: mandatory HIV antibody testing 7. Prostitute victim/sex worker agent: the global discourse of NGOs 8. Conclusion